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Lycée de l’Eau Rougeâtre

Le mystere de l'amour courtois

Link to:International Education : UNESCO 1974 Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace, and Education Relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Conferences

Debate conference "ETHICS and RESPONSIBILITY" Brest, ENSTA Bretagne, 6th April 2011, 13h15

BEFORE QUESTIONNAIRE (to come)

PHELMA/ENSIETA Student Public Conference - Why bother with ethics? 2 April 2009 - 1:30-6:30 pm - amphi Jean Besson - Campus - St. Martin d'Heres *ENSIMAG Student Reactions

PHELMA Student Public Conference: Let's speak science and ethics 13 November 2008: * Student Reviews and Responses

Part One

1. Sophie's World: Writing Paragraphs


2. Evolution: Listening comprehension


3. Evolution of Attraction: Integrated Speaking


4. Biographies and Character Descriptions (in prep)


5. The Unspoken Language: 1 Short Stories


6. The Unspoken Language: 2 The Plays


7. Imagery in Haikus: Compound Nouns


8. Introduction to Gaia Theory: Reading Comprehension


9. Gaia: Daisyworld - Line Graphs


10. James Lovelock and The Revenge of Gaia: Creating a Synthesis 1


11. Poverty and War in the Sudan - Describing processes


12. Sympathetic Magic & The Cargo Cult: Creating a Synthesis 2:


13. Obama's rhetoric: Language of debates

Science and Ethics

• Is it right? Introducing Margaret Somerville - Listening and reading - writing definitions -

• The Human Spirit, The Enchantment in the Forest at Galleons Lap & the Tao- Writing

• Connections - lateral thinking


• Social Responsibility of Scientists - Reading and discussion


• * Student Reactions and Comments


• *Gerard Toulouse Responds to PHELMA Students


• Why save biodiversity?


• Instrumental Value


• Intrinsic Value (in prep.)


• The Ethnic Cleansing of Nature - A New Zealand Case Study - Reading and Discussion


• Water Ethics: The Aral Sea


• Spirit, Intuition and the "Mystically Tone Deaf" - Relative clauses (in prep.)


• The Pugwash Movement: Anthropology 101 and Waging Peace Listening Comprehension - The third conditional


• The Tragedy of the Commons - Reading comprehension and discussion


• The Tao of Pooh -Reading Non-Fiction


• Siddhartha - Reading a Novel


• The Timeless Way of Building - Reading Non-Fiction -chapter notes (in prep.)


• Chimpanzee Violence and Torture - Essay topic


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  Grammar and Vocabulary Links

1. Verb tenses - Englishpage.com


2. Guide to Grammar and Writing Index - by Charles Darling - Sponsored by Capital Community College Foundation


3. Webster's-Merriam Dictionary


4. Giving instructions - Making an origami paper crane


5. NAL Grammar: Time Travel - Verb tenses , Race Relations in France - Definite Articles ; Latinate and French words in English (in prep)

Part Two - Science and Culture - Seminar Topics

1. Ariadne's Thread


2. Primitive Art


3. Girl with Pearl Earring - Modal verbs of speculation - Hypotheses


4. Plato and The World of Perfect Ideas


5. Our Responses to Beauty


6. Cultural Evolution and the Paranormal - Susan Blackmore responds to students .


7. An Introduction to Epigenetic Rules -The Savanna Hypothesis. Super-normal Stimuli. The Picasso Effect.


8. The Biology of Comedy


9. Biology of Attraction


10. "Nice Guys Finish First" -The Theory and Language of Negotiations -( in prep.)

Shakespeare

1. Twelfth Night


2. Romeo and Juliet


3. Hamlet

Part 3 Soliya - Grenoble

Part 4 Environmental Concerns

Conservation

Global Warming Links

Al Gore & An Inconvenient Truth

WMD Links:

Come Clean

Student Pugwash UK

Student Pugwash USA

Part 5 Biology

Biology for the New Zealand Curriculum

Part 6 English for ECE

Vocabulary building for toddlers

Ethics and Sustainability links:

UNESCO

Language and Civil Society - Sustained Content Course Material for ESL and Peace Studies - US State Department

GILE Global Issues in Language Education - Global (International ) Education through content based language teaching. Special Interest Group of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers)

Cates, K.A ( 1998) Teaching for a Better World - Global Issues and Language Education. HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION IN ASIAN SCHOOLS Vol. 5, pp.41-52 - HURIGHTS OSAKA

The Natural Edge Project (TNEP) - Australian NGO devoted to contributing and communicating sustainable solutions - involves policy and education.

Ingenieurs du Monde - Developmental NGO - making a better world through sharing technology.

Photos from Flickr

Lotus by Bahman Farzad
blue marble (planet earth) by woodleywonderworks

References

Genet, Ray (2010) Case Study: Soliya Connect Programme at ENSIMAG, France (pp.399-411), in Helm, F and Guth, E (eds) Telecollaboration 2.0 for Language and Intercultural Learning. Peter Lang Publishing Group, Bern, Switzerland

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